This article is about the year 1502.
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Italian translation of Herodotus' Histories made for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo and published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
Years: | 1499 1500 1501 – 1502 – 1503 1504 1505 |
1502 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1502 MDII |
Ab urbe condita | 2255 |
Armenian calendar | 951 ԹՎ ՋԾԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6252 |
Bengali calendar | 909 |
Berber calendar | 2452 |
English Regnal year | 17 Hen. 7 – 18 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2046 |
Burmese calendar | 864 |
Byzantine calendar | 7010–7011 |
Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4198 or 4138 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4199 or 4139 |
Coptic calendar | 1218–1219 |
Discordian calendar | 2668 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1494–1495 |
Hebrew calendar | 5262–5263 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1558–1559 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1424–1425 |
- Kali Yuga | 4603–4604 |
Holocene calendar | 11502 |
Igbo calendar | 502–503 |
Iranian calendar | 880–881 |
Islamic calendar | 907–908 |
Japanese calendar | Bunki 2 (文亀2年) |
Julian calendar | 1502 MDII |
Korean calendar | 3835 |
Minguo calendar | 410 before ROC 民前410年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2044–2045 |
Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.
- May 11 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth and final trip to the 'New World'. He explores Central America, and discovers St. Lucia (possibly),[1] the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
- May 21 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the uninhabited island of Saint Helena.
July–December
- July – Ismail I becomes Shah of Azerbaijan.[2]
- August 14 – Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and names the country 'Honduras'.
- September – A Greek and Italian parallel text edition of Herodotus' Histories done for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius.
- September 18 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica.
- November 7 – Columbus reaches the coast of Honduras and passes south to Panama.
- December 26 – Cesare Borgia kills Ramiro D'Orco; this incident is referenced in Machiavelli's The Prince
- December 31 – Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino, where he imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitellozzo and Oliveretto; he executes them the next morning.
Date unknown
- The first African slaves brought to the New World arrive at the island of Hispaniola (modern-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).
- Bristol merchants return from Newfoundland (first so named this year from a letter) to England carrying three native people and cod from the Grand Banks.[3][4]
- Moctezuma II is elected emperor of the Aztecs, following the death of Ahuitzotl.
- Meñli I Giray defeats the Golden Horde and sacks their capital, Sarai.
- Wittenberg University is founded.
- In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg uses iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.
- In Italy, Asher Lämmlein declares that the Jewish Messiah will arrive in the next 6 months, resulting in the 'year of penance.'
- The King's School, Macclesfield, England, is founded by Sir John Percyvale.
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is proceeded to licentiate.
- Wilhelm Bombast moves to Villach with his son, Paracelsus.
Births
- January 7 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- January 20 – Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish colonial industrialist and saint in Mexico (d. 1600)
- February 2 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
- March 4 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony (d. 1557)
- March 18 – Philibert of Chalon, French nobleman (d. 1530)
- March 20 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
- April 2 – Susanna of Bavaria, German noble, House of Wittelsbach (d. 1543)
- April 10 – Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1505–1559) and Elector Palatine (1556–1559) (d. 1559)
- April 25 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1574)
- June 2 – Guillaume Bigot, French writer (d. 1550)
- June 6 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
- July 26 – Christian Egenolff, German printer (d. 1555)
- July 27 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (d. 1571)
- August 14 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (d. 1550)
- September 13 – John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
- September 14 – Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532 (d. 1532)
- December 6 – Anna of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1568)
- December 13 – George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg (d. 1555)
- date unknown
- Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Cremonese founder of the Barnabite Order and saint (d. 1539)
- Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of the Sengoku period (d. 1555)
- Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (d. 1572)
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (d. 1578)
- Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (d. 1543)
- probable
- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1540)
- Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (d. 1525)
- Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; d. 1577)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (d. 1537)
Deaths
January–June
- February 18 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (b. 1457)
- March – Francesco Laurana, Dalmatian-born sculptor (b. c. 1430)
- March 2 – Jan I Carondelet, Burgundian jurist and politician (b. 1428)
- April 2 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, English prince, eldest son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
- April 15 – John IV of Chalon-Arlay, Prince of Orange (1475–1502) (b. 1443)
- April 20 – Maria of Loon-Heinsberg, Dutch noble (b. 1426)
- May 4 – Berthold II of Landsberg, Bishop of Verden (1470–1502) and Hildesheim (1481–1502) (b. 1464)
- May 6 – James Tyrrell, English knight, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (b. c. 1450)
- June 9 – Astorre III Manfredi, Italian noble (b. 1485)
July–December
- July 15 – Luka Radovanović, Catholic priest (b. 1425)
- August 18 – Knut Alvsson, Norwegian nobleman and politician (b. 1455)
- September 1 – Sōgi, Japanese Buddhist priest and poet (b. 1421)
- October 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Quiñones, Spanish noble (b. 1444)
- November 10 – George I of Münsterberg, Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Graf von Glatz (b. 1470)
- November 13 – Annio da Viterbo, Italian Dominican friar and scholar (b. 1432)
- December 31
- Oliverotto Euffreducci, Italian politician (b. 1475)
- Vitellozzo Vitelli, Italian condottiero (b. c. 1458)
- date unknown
- Ahuitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (b. 1468)
- Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (b. c. 1460?)
References
- ^ "History of St. Lucia". Retrieved May 6, 2011.
- ^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1991, ISBN 978-0-85229-529-8, p. 295.
- ^ Fabyan, Robert (1516). The New Chronicles of England and France.
- ^ Nansen, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times.